Publications

Novels

• Sea Above, Sun Below (River Boat Books, 2020, print.)

“I have read Sea Above, Sun Below with great delight, find it ‘a cacophony of jubilation,’ and I love the boldness of Salis’ characters, his wit, and the dash of his writing. There is electricity on every page, reminding me of what Dr. Sam Johnson said of Dr. Birch, ‘As soon as he takes up his pen, it turns into a tornado.’”

– Alexander Theroux, author of Darconville’s Cat and Laura Warholic

“George Salis has an exhilarating gift. The overall breadth of the book, the cinematic quality, and the ease with which he juggles all the voices are terrific. It’s masterfully orchestrated, vast in scope, and fearless.”

– Rikki Ducornet, author of the Tetralogy of Elements

Awards

• Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing
• Sullivan Award for Fiction
• Ann Morris Prize for Fiction
• Josephine F. Davidson Award for Integrity in Journalism

Stories

• The Knight of Night (The Holon Project, Vol. 3, 2022, print.)
• The Infant King (Golden Handcuffs Review, #32, 2022, print.)
• Nuclear Mysticism (The Best of Three Crows Year Two: Anthology of Weird Science Fiction and Fantasy, April 2021, ebook, paperback/hardcover print.)
• Year 0 (NonBinary Review, March 2021, ebook.)
• Bait (Sci Phi Journal, Oct. 2020, online.)
• Figment (Paper Butterfly Flash Fiction, April 2020, online.)
• Nuclear Mysticism (Three Crows Magazine, #6, March 2020, ebook.)
• The Infant Ghost (The Hoosier Review, 2019, online.)
• Ecdysis as Forgiveness (Problématique, Vol. 1, Oct. 2019, print/online.)
• In Communion with the Invisible Flock (Mad Scientist Journal, Sept. 2019, ebook, print.)
• Country of Dolls (Consequence Magazine’s Feature of the Month, Sept. 2019, online.)
• Tres Borges (Afterlives of the Writers: A 5th Wall Anthology, July 2019, print.)
• In Which David Foster Wallace Experiences Several More or Less Embarrassing Posthumous Revelations, To Tell You the Truth (Afterlives of the Writers: A 5th Wall Anthology, July 2019, print.)
• Flight Response (The Sunlight Press, May 2019, online. Longlisted for The Short Story Show’s short story contest, 2020.)
• Lure (Unreal Magazine, Vol. 1, May 2019, print/online.)
• The Lightning Conductor (Zizzle Literary Magazine, Oct. 2018, hardcover print.)
• Her External Heart (New Reader Magazine, Vol. 1, #3, Sept. 2018, online.)
• The Second Skein (Black Dandy, #1, Oct. 2017, print, with a wrap-around cover based on my story.)
• Heir and Sea (Indie Soleil Magazine, Aug. 2017, print.)
• Womb (NILVX: A Book of Magic, Vol. 1, #1, July 2017, print.)
• Phaethon (Quail Bell Magazine, May 2017, online.)
• The Thinker (The Dark, March 2017, online.)
• On Falling into a Vision (Quail Bell Magazine, Feb. 2017, online.)
• Unfinished (Noble / Gas Qtrly, 203.4, Dec. 2016, online.)
• Wrecked Vehicle Found, Person Missing (F.A.L.D., #13, Dec. 2016, online.)
• Limbus (The Missing Slate’s Story of the Week, Oct. 2016, online.)
• Heir and Sea (CultureCult Magazine, Vol. 1, #6, Sept. 2016, print/online.)
• Phaethon (Indie Soleil Magazine, Sept. 2016, print.)
• Frowning Angel (Setu, Aug. 2016, online.)
• Some Mechanism (MUSH/MUM, Aug. 2016, online.)
• Flora (Crab Fat Magazine, July 2016, online. Winner of the 2015 Sullivan Award for Fiction and the 2015 Ann Morris Prize for Fiction.)
• Always on the Shore (The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, Vol. 91, 2016, print.)

Interviews/Conversations

• Books of Some Substance – Theroux (Podcast, Aug. 2022)
• Beyond the Zero (Podcast, Oct. 2021)
• Books of Some Substance – Rushdie (Podcast, Feb. 2021)
• The Collidescope (July 2020)
• Three Crows Magazine (July 2020)
• The London Magazine (Nov. 2019)
• Mad Scientist Journal (Nov. 2019)
• 5th Wall Press (Oct. 2019)

Poetry

• An Echo Echoes Pharaohs (Isacoustic, Feb. 2019, online.)

Nonfiction

• Interview – The Secret Service by Wendy Walker (Tough Poets Press, 2021)
• Introduction and Interview – Mangled Hands by Johnny Stanton (Tough Poets Press, 2021)
• On Falling in the Name of Research (Writer’s Co-op)
• Whence Cometh Evil: The Concept and Mechanics of Natural Evil (Skeptic, Vol. 23, #1, March 2018)
• Racism in America (Stetson Today)
• Free Speech vs. Free Elections (Stetson Today)
• A Review of R. Keith’s Airy Nothings (Isacoustic)
• A Review of Heather Minette’s Half Light (Isacoustic)
• Big Brothers in All Shapes and Sizes: 1984 and North Korea (Cultured Vultures)
• King of Shaft: A Review of Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis (Atticus Review)
• Reverse Prophecy: A Review of Fallen Land by Taylor Brown (The Tishman Review)
• The Language of the Subconscious: A Review of Wake by AT Grant (Atticus Review)
• The Mantra Makes it True: A Review of Happy Are the Happy by Yasmina Reza (Atticus Review)
• The Icarus Complex: The Influence of the Greek Myth of Icarus and Daedalus in 20th-Century Literature (Galaxy)
• To Make Ourselves as Snow: A Review of In The Season of Blood and Gold by Taylor Brown (Atticus Review)

Translations

• Two Interviews with George Salis (Russian translation, Kongress W)
• Towers of Babel: An Interview with the Founder of The Untranslated (Spanish translation by Silvia Zuleta, August 2022)
• A Review of Permanent Earthquake by Evan Dara (Russian translation by Jamshed Avazov, October 2022)